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A Guide To Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
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"A Tale of Two Kitties" (Clampett; 1942):
WB:
Omitted was Catstello's remark about the Hayes Office not allowing him to
give to Babbit "the bird".
"A Tale of Two Mice" (Tashlin; 1945):
WB:
This cartoon was edited to remove Babbit's statement, "If this don't work,
then I'll be a jack-ass," followed by Catstello in a toy airplane (that, to
prove Babbit correct in his unflattering self-description, has not been
effective in doing what Babbit had wanted), yelling, "Jack-ass! You're a
jack-ass! Hee-Haw! Hee-Haw!"
"A Taste of Catnip" (McKimson; 1966):
CBS:
Daffy being beset by the fists of angry alley cats after having bombed the
catnip factory was edited for violence.
"Terrier Stricken" (Jones; 1952):
CBS:
This cartoon ended abruptly with Claude Cat flying off of a diving board and
looking relieved. Gone was his descent to crash into the cement bottom of an
empty swimming pool, after which he dazedly "swims" in the cracked concrete.
"There Auto Be a Law" (McKimson; 1953):
WB:
This scene was deleted: a man whose car has exhausted its gasoline supply
asks of another motorist if he can siphon gasoline from the second motorist's
car by inhaling the gasoline through a rubber hose and into a portable
container, but he inhales too much gasoline and starts to act like a car,
uttering put-put sounds and scooting away down the highway.
"This is a Life?" (Freleng; 1955):
ABC:
Scenes removed from this cartoon short: 1) Granny hits Daffy on the head with
her umbrella after he has been ranting about Bugs being honored and not him;
2) Daffy heckles Bugs with, "Throw him out!" and is again dealt a wallop on
the head by Granny with her umbrella; 3) Shipboard cannons blast Yosemite
Sam's face in the recollection of "Buccaneer Bunny"; 4) Elmer and Sam place
a bomb in the gift package before giving it to Bugs; and 5) Daffy returns
onto stage after being the offstage victim of the bomb and says to Bugs,
"You're despicable."
Merrie Melodies: The cannon scene was shortened.

"The Three Little Bops" (Freleng; 1957):
ABC:
Cut out of this cartoon was the part in which the Big Bad Wolf is punched in
the nose by the bouncer at the back door to the House of Bricks.
"Thugs With Dirty Mugs" (Avery; 1939):
WB:
Killer and his mob with gunpoint rob a bank, and in so-doing they violently
incapacitate a tattletale bank teller ("I'm going to tell-lll!"), an aspect
to the robbery that was unshown. Also missing was Officer Flanagan throwing
cheese to an actual rat while yelling, "Take that, you rat!"
"Tired and Feathered" (Larriva; 1965):
ABC:
The ending of this cartoon was edited so that after the dynamite
telephone explodes, viewers did not see a dazed looking Wile E. standing in the
remains of the telephone booth or the Road Runner beep-beeping and
zooming away.
"To Hare is Human" (Jones; 1956):
ABC: Wile E.
looking into his sack and being blasted in the face by the detonating TNT
inside of the sack, Wile E. suffering another dynamite explosion in his
portable elevator, two hand grenades dropped by Wile E. into Bugs' toaster
popping prematurely into a position beside Wile E. and exploding there, and
the lit dynamite stick that Wile E. placed in Bugs' vacuum cleaner exploding
in the trash can where Wile E. is hiding and into which Bugs dumped the
contents of his vacuum cleaner bag, were all removed from this cartoon.
"Tom-Tom Tomcat" (Freleng; 1953):
Merrie Melodies:
Deleted was this scene after Tweety and Granny's rendition of "Ten Little
Indians". A slender Indian putty tat drills a hole in the side of Tweety and
Granny's fort shelter. The cat sticks his bow and arrow into the hole and
aims to fire his arrow, but a rifle comes out of the hole and blasts the cat
in the face, blowing away the upper half of his fur and causing the lower
half thereof to fall to his feet like a pair of dropped pants. He quickly
pulls his fur back to his waist level and walks out of shot with a dopey
look on his face.
"Too Hop to Handle" (McKimson; 1956):
ABC:
Gone was part of this cartoon's first minute, Hippety Hopper jumping onto a
nurse's back during his rapid passage through a park and the nurse turning
toward a man, whom she thought was touching her for sexual purpose, and
repeatedly striking him with her umbrella. "What did I do? What did I do?"
the man asks.

"Tortoise Wins By a Hare" (Clampett; 1943):
CN:
After Bugs exclaims, "You FOOLS! What are you doing? I'M the rabbit! THE
RABBIT!" the "gambling ring" thug rabbits say, "Eh, now he tells us!" before
gun-shooting themselves in the head. The suicides are omitted from this
cartoon, which jumps from, "Eh, now he tells us!" to the ending "That's all,
Folks!" card.
TBS: The rabbits pouncing upon Bugs at the finish line was shortened by
a couple of seconds.
"Touche and Go" (Jones; 1957):
CBS: A dog chasing
a cat overturns a bucket of white paint, which also provides this cartoon's
excuse for the cat obtaining her stripe. CBS spliced away the angry,
paint-splattered man repeatedly kicking the dog down the road.
"Toy Trouble" (Jones; 1941):
CN: The images of a
blackface toy music band are eliminated from this cartoon.
"Transylvania 6-5000" (Jones; 1963):
ABC:
Bugs' line, "A wonderful place for a vacation," was gone. Count Bloodcount's
reply, "It's never too late," was also omitted. Scenes of Count Bloodcount
escorting Bugs through the castle were edited with Bugs' comment on the
ghostly portraits muted. The reason for ABC deleting some of Bugs' arrival
at the castle was that a noose is used by Bugs to operate the chimes to the
castle. Nooses cannot be shown, whether used for their usual purpose or not.
"Trap-Happy Porky" (Jones; 1945):
CN: The opening
shot, of the sign stating "Uncle Tom's Cabins- Boarders Taken (For All They've
Got!)", is deleted.
WB: Same editing of "Uncle Tom's Cabins" as on CN. The scene wherein all of the cats singing "Moonlight Bay" drink some cider was edited out of this cartoon.
"Tree Cornered Tweety" (Freleng; 1956):
ABC:
Totally removed was the mine field scene, i.e. Tweety giving to Sylvester a
magnet that attracts all of the mines to Sylvester to explode, and also
missing was Sylvester on his skis plowing into a tree. One only hears the
sound of the collision behind Tweety's back. Oddly enough, the same shot of
the collision with the tree was untouched when it occurs in "Trip for Tat".
"Tree For Two" (Freleng; 1952):
ABC: In 1994, this
previously uncensored cartoon underwent some excisions, in particular to the
scene near the cartoon's end wherein Chester pounds Sylvester on the ground.
There was a false cut-away to Spike hiding behind the "Loans" building, and
Chester is only heard doing the violent deed. Another quick cut: Spike
kicking the semi-conscious Sylvester (who had been thrashed by Chester) to
his feet.
"Trip For Tat" (Freleng; 1960):
ABC:
All portrayals of Orientals were unacceptable for broadcast on Bugs &
Tweety from 1994 onward; hence, the scene in "Trip for Tat" involving a
Japanese fisherman was edited. Neither was it any longer kosher to suggest
that Italians are fat because they eat huge servings of spaghetti, because
the final gag of this cartoon short with Sylvester in the Italian restaurant
was censored so that all that was seen was Sylvester seated at the Italian
dinner table and saying that birds are now off of his meal list.
"The Turn-Tale Wolf" (McKimson; 1952):
FOX:
The brief shot of Big Bad Wolf bootlegging in his house was cut from this
cartoon.
WB: One of the pigs scorning Big Bad with, "Go blow your brains out," was
deleted.
"Tweet and Sour" (Freleng; 1956):
CBS: This
cartoon was edited to eliminate the orange cat grabbing Sylvester's tail and
repeatedly slamming Sylvester on the ground.
"Tweet, Tweet, Tweety" (Freleng; 1951):
ABC:
Excised was the scene wherein a stick of dynamite explodes in Sylvester's
face while he is attempting to air pump Tweety out of a tree branch. Also
gone was Tweety cutting the same branch on which Sylvester is standing and
commenting, "The poor putty tat's parachute didn't open!" Furthermore,
the scene with a crowd of tourists snapshooting Tweety was shortened to
remove Tweety saying, "Atta boy, officer! Give him a hit in the head!"

"Tweety and the Beanstalk" (Freleng; 1957):
ABC:
The scene of the Chinese Tweety that closes this cartoon was excised from it
on all broadcasts after 1995. There was an abrupt fade to black immediately
after Sylvester arrives in the Orient.

"Tweety's Circus" (Freleng; 1955):
ABC:
Sylvester malleting the lion was cut so that instead of him hitting the lion
with the mallet 6 times, as is the case when this cartoon is unedited, he
only registers one impact on the lion's head. Further, the lion was shown
angrily arriving in front of Flammo the Fire Eater's vacant podium, with a
jump to Sylvester already in a water bucket; missing here was Sylvester being
confronted by the lion and Sylvester's impromptu impersonation of Flammo and
his posterior-burning performance of Flammo's fire-eating act.
"Tweety's S.O.S." (Freleng; 1951):
ABC: Excised
were the following: Sylvester chases Tweety through every door in the ship.
Tweety skips the heating furnace, but Sylvester runs inside of it and jumps
from the ship's smokestack with his tail on fire; and when Sylvester
confronts Tweety on the ship's deck, Tweety waves a picture of a boat to
induce a relapse of Sylvester's prior seasickness.
CBS: After Sylvester becomes trapped on a wire high above the ship, there
was an abrupt cut to remove Tweety's "this little piggy" game with the cat's
fingers that are preventing Sylvester from falling from the wire.
"Two's a Crowd" (Jones; 1950):
ABC: The scene
wherein Claude, in pursuit of Frisky, uses a plumber's helper to suck hot
coals out of the house's furnace and, as a result, is ejected from the
premises was edited out of this cartoon on Bugs & Tweety starting
in 1994. Claude chases Frisky, who jumps down the furnace pipe, Claude runs
to obtain the plunger, Frisky leaps out of the pipe, and there was a jump to
the cartoon's final scene of Frisky eating the food in Claude's dish. Also
missing was this: Claude utilizes a string of sausage links to lure Frisky to
a line of lit dynamite sticks, but, of course, Claude incurs the explosion
when Frisky frightens him from his behind and he flees to a closet containing
the ready-to-detonate dynamite, and after Claude staggers out of the
explosion-damaged closet, Frisky barks and startles Claude into ramming into
a light fixture. Another scene was eliminated on earlier broadcasts (see
CBS).
CBS: Claude becoming dragged by the tail into a washing machine, being put
through the laundry cycle, and emerging from the machine as a huge, wet
blob, was censored on CBS and then on ABC until 1990.
All images (c) Warner Bros.
Thanks to Brian Cruz for image from "Trap-Happy Porky"
Thanks to Larry Tremblay for images from "Tom-Tom Tomcat" and "Too Hop to Handle"
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